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I have been enjoying it immensely, and I am sad it is over. I have balanced productivity with laziness and fun pretty well this weekend. With a lot of help from bb, the computer wiz, I am self hosted now! Look for the official change in the next day or two. What this means for you is a small address change, but all for the sake of making a better blog. I can’t wait until it is finished!

In other news, my productivity has been challenged this weekend with the addition of the four seasons on Felicity streaming on Netflix.

I am so glad I decided to do my sort of motivational posts on Monday morning. It is definitely a time when I need a little kick in the butt or a positive message to get going.

Take this morning. My plans for today were yoga in the morning and easy run in the evening. My knee was acting out again last night. It always feels better after yoga. Unfortunately, I slept through yoga. At this point I thought, I could go run now and do yoga later. Ugh, but I’m tired.

Then motivation hit! I saw someone found my blog by searching “you never regret a workout.” This was all I needed. A reminder to follow my own advice! And the honor of someone finding me through that particular statement. I hope they stuck around for a bit, but if they did not I owe them one for giving me a little encouragement this morning. I threw on my gym clothes and did an easy 2.5 mile / 25 minute run. And I feel good!

Now it is my turn to pay it forward with some inspiration. Today’s song choice for Music Monday is a remix of one of my favorite songs by MGMT. And it came on Pandora this morning. Enjoy!

And finally, I found these posts on Twitter on Friday. I loved them so much that, I saved them just to share with you today.

Good Morning! It is Music Monday. Today’s feature is “Feel Good” by the Gorillaz. Rock out to this during your workout today or while checking out mine below.

I am still on a high from the weekend at Healthy Living Summit. As a result, it was not hard to get up and moving down to the gym this morning. That is something key for keeping motivation up: Find something that excites you!

I did an upper body strength training session in the downstairs gym this morning. It was a routine from an older issue of Muscle & Fitness Hers. I love that magazine for new strength training moves. I also added some abs and 20 elliptical HIIT.

Today is definitely a rainy, gloomy, hot breakfast and second cup of coffee type of morning.

1/3 C. Bob’s Red Mill 5 Grain Hot cereal + flax

cooked for 10 minutes with 1 cup water

added 1 small mashed banana during cooking

plus cinnamon and vanilla an dash of sea salt

1/4 cup skim milk added at the end of cooking

topped with 1/2 T fresh ground almond butter

I am dragging this morning, so I have decided to borrow an idea from a facebook friend (hope she doesn’t mind!). She posted a song for “feeling good” on Friday. I’m taking this idea to the beginning of the week. A little tune to get you dancing and start your week off right. I think this will be a regular feature here on Freckles & Spice.

Last Week was Week 2 and the challenge was to turn a negative into a positive action for someone else.

I do not really know if I turned a negative into anything but here are some actions I witnessed through out the week:

– A fruit stand vendor let one of the regular homeless men outside Bellevue Hospital take something for free. This actually made me think I should pay for en extra piece of fruit sometimes and let one of them pick something out

– Bryan was telling me how hard it is to examine someone while having to use the translator phones because they do not speak english. At first he thought it is was hopeless, but now he is really taking his time to try and word things probably and give them the best advice and care he can despite the language barrier. He says Chinese Mandarin is the most difficult. It is hard to find words and phrases that correlate.

-I gave my seat at the movies to an older woman with a walker when no one else was moving for her.

Looking forward to see what the Week Three Challenge will be.

Have you witnessed any positive actions recently??

“Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?” -Unknown

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Hi! I am Ashley. A life long food enthusiast, but with a newly developed healthy attitude. This blog is a place for discussion about healthy living, as well as a resource for the science behind healthy choices. Freckles & Spice is my commitment to stay on the path towards healthy and active lifestyle and to rediscover myself, all while balancing the fast paced, hectic life of a professional twenty-something living in the city. Thanks for stopping by!

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